Events for November 06

November 6, 1887

Birth at sea of Edward McLysaght, genealogist and writer

Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (Irish: Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986), was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland.

November 6, 1929

The Gaelic League announces expulsion for anyone who attends foreign jazz dances

1929 The Gaelic League bans ‘foreign dances’ and the ‘Down with Jazz’ campaign begins. We are a nation given to bans and boycotts. The latter expression, famously, has its origins in the Land War of the early 1880s.

November 6, 1628

Founding of the Irish College in Rome.

Among its former students was St Oliver Plunkett, who attended in the late 17th century

November 6, 1887

Celtic Football Club formally constituted in Calton, Glasgow

The Celtic Football Club was formally constituted in Calton, Glasgow, with the primary goal of alleviating poverty in the East End parishes of Glasgow.